I haven't p
osted since July 27th.... almost a whole month.During that time I have been busy, busy, BUSY! And I hate to admit it but I will... I got really lazy with the weight loss plans and I have been on and off plan since July 30th with most of it spent OFF.
We had a few weekends in a row of having a garage sale and although I started out with the attitude that I was not going to let that derail my staying on plan, it was quickly abandoned partway through the first day. It was so hot, so chaotic and I was so exhausted that I just gave in to the "run through a drive-thru" or "order pizza" temptations. I knew I was burning a lot more calories than usual with all the activity surrounding the garage sale... lots of digging through boxes, lifting and carrying boxes and tons of moving around and not much sitting around. Plus, lots of sweating! But I suppose all the extra calorie-burning wasn't doing much good since at meal time I was eating high-calorie and high-sodium JUNK!
Oh well. But I promised I would be honest here and to myself and that's what happened.
Then right after our second garage sale was done, I came down with a MASSIVE attack of my Crohn's disease. Had a major blockage in fact that was extremely painful. The blockage cleared after the first day but then my system was just sort of "in shock" and I had to be very careful what I ate. I stayed off plan on purpose and kept to a very limited diet of pasta, cheese, chips (corn based, not wheat), ham, etc. No veggies, fruits (except bananas), whole grains or hard-to-digest meats. I spent a lot of time resting on the couch and took a lot of painkillers.
I let my TSFL Health Coach know what had happened and how I was dealing with it so I did feel accountable to someone. :) She was off enjoying a week of camping with her family but she still kept tabs on me.
It took me several weeks to get over the big CD attack and even now, 3 weeks later, I still get a little sore.
We also had several events planned where I did not want to be on plan... good friends and good food. But I knew I had to re-draw that proverbial line in the sand and get back on plan at some point. So today is that day. Today I am back on plan and will stay so until Friday. We have planned that day to go to the State Fair so I will enjoy that day and then get right back on plan the next day.
After that, I should be able to stay on plan for about the next 3 weeks until our next planned festival day which is the local big Oktoberfest. We actually attend that every year with our good friends who are also my TSFL health coaches so all of us will be straying off plan that day! :) This year some other friends and family will also attend.
My Crohn's attack was not a complete surprise although it was much worse than I had expected it to. In July I experienced a very stressful couple of weeks when one of my family members verbally and emotionally attacked me unprovoked and completely out of nowhere. He also physically threatened my husband and made me very fearful to be home alone. He is a drug addict and (recent) ex-convict who is now obviously showing some mental instability as well.
I had several weeks of experiencing a lot of extreme stress, fear and trouble sleeping. My Crohn's does react to stress that I experience but it is always a delayed reaction so I knew some sort of attack would come.
I weighed myself today and I am up 3.2lbs since my last weigh-in on 7/27. I was pleasantly surprised it was not more. I was expecting a higher number. I have not used my treadmill since 7/19 which is just plain embarrassing. So I've got to get back into the swing of that! We are also possibly buying a used BowFlex system from a good friend so that will be good.
So that's my check-in for today. I plan to continue on with the book I was working through as it is very good and a great daily motivator for me. One obstacle I will have in the next 2 months though is that this time of year I am pretty busy with work deadlines on top of all the personal life stuff. And work deadlines have to take priority over me keeping up with my daily reading and especially, blogging about it.
